Ros Gooden receives the Emeritus Mead Award

The Emeritus Mead Award was created by the Assembly Board in 2017 to recognize the significant contribution of Baptist academics through their teaching, research, mentoring and leadership roles to the life and leadership development of those within our movement of churches.

At Assembly on the 17th November, Dr Roaslind Gooden was presented with The Emeritus Mead Award. The award recognizes the significant contribution of Dr. Rosalind Gooden to both the Baptist Churches in South Australia and the wider Australian Baptist church movement. In her nineteen years with Global Interaction, serving in East Pakistan/Bangladesh, Rosalind taught church leaders and was involved in establishing the Bible Students’ Fellowship of Bangladesh. With a vision for theological training of pastors and leaders in Bangladesh, Rosalind was central in the development of the College of Christian Theology Bangladesh (CCTB) and in establishing a language school focused on equipping expatriates to speak Bengali.

Rosalind has also served faithfully on the Global Interaction Board and as the Director of Training and Personnel Development, where she developed curriculum and mentored individuals preparing for overseas mission.
Rosalind has also been actively involved in a variety of leadership roles at Flinders Street Baptist Church.
Rosalind’s passion in Baptist history led to the successful completion of her PhD and she continues to speak at both national and international conferences, write papers for numerous journals and publications and is an active member of the SA Baptist History group.

The Assembly Board recognises Rosalind for her long term and significant contribution to the growth and development of leaders within both the SA Baptist Movement and the wider Australian and international Baptist communities. We give thanks to God for her passion and faithful service among our Baptist church family and conferring of the Emeritus Mead Award is an apt and proper recognition of her work.